Among several seminal works in his career, German graphic designer Otl Aicher designed a series of posters to promote the Allgäu region in Germany, … [Read more...]
The Prince Of The Darknet. Illustrations by Daniel Stolle
Daniel Stolle (1982) is a German illustrator living in Finland. Although he works on dark subjects (isolation, depression, the impact of modern … [Read more...]
The New Landscape in Art and Science by György Kepes
The New Landscape in Art and Science is a 1956 book by György Kepes. The Hungarian-born artist, art theorist and educator taught along Laszlo … [Read more...]
The Etruscan Tumuli: Underground Cities for the Dead
Many of the Etruscan tombs in Italy are housed in round burial mounds (tumuli) built in earth and stones with several rock-carved … [Read more...]
Negative Writing: ‘Home’ and Other Works by Jochen Gerner
I treat the theme of violence, but also the notions of noise, of movement, of money, of religion, of Good and Evil that go with it. Jochen Gerner, … [Read more...]
Dreamy Pencil Interiors by Vicky Ling
Vicky Ling (1984) is a Chinese artist based in London and Shangai. She specialises in graphite and watercolours drawings of dreamy interior landscapes … [Read more...]
El Lissitzky’s “Cabinet of Abstraction”
El Lissitzky’s "Cabinet of Abstraction" (Kabinett der Abstrakten) was commissioned in 1927 by Alexander Dorner for the Hannover Provincial Museum. In … [Read more...]
Inside Outside: Illustrations by Michael Kirkham
Michael Kirkham is an illustrator living in Edinburgh and working internationally. In many of his works he shows a specific interest in the built … [Read more...]
Storytelling with Forms and Patterns: Prints and Textiles by Hannah Waldron
Hannah Waldron is a British print and textile multi-disciplinary artist. Her works display an interesting array of patterns, architectural forms, … [Read more...]
Ultimate Disaster and Other Drawings by Isabel Seliger
Isabel Seliger is a visual artist who lives and works in Berlin. Her works range from colourful illustrations to short comics, to black and white … [Read more...]
Evil House: Monochrome Drawings by Morten Schelde
Morten Schelde is a renowned Danish artist born in 1972 in Copenhagen. His linear drawings, prints and etchings employ a colourful yet limited … [Read more...]
Fragmented Memory: Glitch Textiles by Phillip Stearns (2013)
As a collateral post after our last one on Anni Albers, here we present one recent work by electronic media artist Phillip Stearns. Interested … [Read more...]
Abstraction, from the Amerindian tradition to Modernism: Textile Works by Anni Albers
Anni Albers (born Annelise Else Frieda Fleischmann) has been one of the most influential textile artists of the 20th Century. While studying weaving … [Read more...]
Building a Micropolis: SimCity in 1989
Will Wright's SimCity was originally a map developing feature within the game Raid on Bungeling Bay. Born of Wright's love for the intricacies of … [Read more...]
The “Haus der Freundschaft” (House of Friendship): a Megaform in Istanbul by Hans Poelzig (1916)
In 1916 an invited architectural competition was held in order to decide the scheme of a building which should have celebrated the alliance … [Read more...]
The Battle of Manhattan: Reliving the 1776 Revolution in the City of Today
In 1975 New York Magazine (Oct 20. 1975) published an article by Dorothy Seiberling summarizing, by means of a hypothetical journal, the crucial … [Read more...]
Kazimir Malevich’s Arkhitektons
Polish-Russian artist Kasimir Malevich is mostly known for his paintings that accompanied the artist's evolution from abstract art to … [Read more...]
Selected Illustrations by Jake Terrell
Jake Terrell is an illustrator and comic artist, of whom we frankly do not know much. His works are visible on jaketerrell.tumblr.com. What follows … [Read more...]
Earliest Land-Art: Herbert Bayer and Fritz Benedict’s Green Mound and Marble Garden (1954-1955)
''I believe that the artist must achieve creative control over the whole of his environment.''- Herbert Bayer : New York Times, October 21, … [Read more...]
“Making Cinema Out of Cinema”: G.Baruchello and A.Grifi’s La Verifica Incerta (1964-65)
The pencil, the pen, the moviola, the camera and the recorders have taught me to 'somehow' assemble words, pictures, objects, my very existence. (A … [Read more...]
The Even Covering of the Field (Sam Jacob)
As a former British Army Captain converted to scholar of early Muslim architecture, K. A. C. Creswell coined the expression "The even covering of the … [Read more...]
The Supreme Achievement – Call for Students Contributions
CALL FOR STUDENT CONTRIBUTORS FOR ‘THE SUPREME ACHIEVEMENT’ Workshop at CAMPO (www.campo.space), Rome, September 5 to September 12. Apply until July … [Read more...]
Gianfranco Baruchello’s Infinite Small Systems
Gianfranco Baruchello was born in Livorno in 1924. Throughout his artistic career he explored several media, from painting to drawing, photography, … [Read more...]
Musgum Mud Huts
The traditional dwellings of the Musgum tribe in Cameroun consisted of sun-dried mud huts of a shell shape. Each domestic structure (also called … [Read more...]
Project for a History of Architecture, Johann Bernhard Fischer von Erlach (1721)
Johann Bernhard Fischer von Erlach (1656–1723) was an important Austrian Baroque architect as well as a sculptor and an architectural historian and … [Read more...]
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